KFC’s Famous Bowl, by Flickr user cbg_rocketfever.
Normally, my relationship with fast-food drive-thru cuisine is pretty healthy.
I don’t eat it.
Mostly. Except for succumbing occasionally to a particularly potent advertising campaign, like that thing Wendy’s has that tops burgers with cheese sauce, bacon and jalapenos. I can’t be the only guy that hears myself talking in Homer [...]
This Brie was sliced open for a layer of Parmesan and basil. (Photo by Flickr user Amy Watts.)
Next up in my videos for The Buffalo News, I make Brie in puff pastry.
The one I made on camera was my first ever, but it won’t be my last. What a deft blend of simplicity and [...]
One of three ranks of steam tables now occupying what used to be the Funny Bone. Insert punchline here.
Staggering out of a Chinese buffet, hoping you can get home before the insulin shock renders you too logy to drive, you tend to get philosophical, like a man on Death Row.
“You get what you pay for.” [...]
Neon so over-the-top, it’s almost like they have to compensate for something.
My college buddy Sean was turning 40, down in Wilmington, Del., and I couldn’t miss the wake, er, festivities.
So I made some pork souvlaki and froze it in a quart Ziploc, making it easy to transport in a cooler without worrying about food safety [...]
The tamales were packed with a dense load of chile-tinged pork
When’s the last time you ate corn tortillas the way abuelas make them at home, the corn dough patted thin between two practiced palms, then griddled?
Never. If you’ve only eaten Mexican food in Western New York restaurants, that’s your answer. Until yesterday, that was my [...]
You can’t, ahem, beet the flavor
Beets are one of those vegetables that Kathy never liked. I was frankly not crazy about them either - usually they arrived on my plate as a sweet pickle, boiled in vinegar and sugar, maybe a few onions and cloves thrown in.
Then, at a restaurant whose name escapes me for [...]
If you add enough cilantro, it’s almost health food, right?
One of the problems with becoming a known food enthusiast is that people look at you kind of funny when you openly adore trashy food.
But hey, this is the Internet, so you might as well hear my shocking confession: I dig the queso.
Not some authentic blend [...]
A delicious blanket stretching as far as the eye can see
Who took me to DiTondo’s for the first time? I cannot remember. This is only important because I believe that people who improve your life in a significant way deserve not only thanks, but payback.
When it comes to DiTondo’s, I owe so hard, it hurts.
DiTondo’s [...]
